Overview
- Police identified the victim as Preeti, who lived separately in Noida with her two children.
- The accused, bus driver Monu Solanki, allegedly confessed to killing her on November 5 after disputes over marriage and money, according to investigators.
- Officers scanned thousands of CCTV feeds and about 1,100 vehicles before focusing on a white-and-blue bus seen near the site with its lights off.
- Police say the torso was dumped in a Noida drain and other remains and a weapon were discarded in Ghaziabad’s Siddharth Vihar to obscure her identity.
- The bus, a sickle or butcher’s knife, clothing, a bloodstained mat and body parts were recovered, forensic tests found human blood on seized items, and an FIR under BNS Sections 103(1) and 238 has been registered.